Eavesdropping Quotes

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious. (Vladimir Putin)
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. View quote
Michael Hutchence
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours. View quote
Ben Marcus
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Internationally, the Echelon program, created by the United States and the UK during the Cold War, seems to have been converted into industrial espionage, according to the French government agencies, by combining traditional eavesdropping and interference of telecommunications, with interception of electronic messages. View quote
Manuel Castells
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs. View quote
Maryrose Wood
I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Terrorists are insane people, clothes also can change one's thoughts sometimes. When we were searching for prisoners who had escaped a detention centre, Melis Turganbayev (the former interior minister) came to me and said that they had been eavesdropping on telephone conversations of wives and mistresses of criminals. Their wives and mistresses wore sacks on their heads and they wanted to organise bombings. If you do not like Kyrgyzstan you can leave our country and go wherever you want. We can pay your travel expenses, even to Syria. View quote
Almazbek Atambayev
Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop. View quote
Tom Waits
When I first started writing, I was thinking of it as a book about mass incarceration, and mass incarceration is not a plot. It's not a story. It's not a character. I was at Harvard doing research on this subject, and I felt like I had a lot of information, but I had not yet found my story because I had to realize that I am a novelist. I'm not a sociologist. I'm not a documentarian. I'm not an ethnographer. And I found the story, actually, through eavesdropping... View quote
Tayari Jones